A consultant to Sociological considering is designed to extend scholars' cognitive studying. It attracts upon the insights of a few academic tasks - severe, inventive and reflective considering. Its pursuits are to steer scholars to the mastery of cognitive behavior and talents, to extend scholars' appreciation and exuberance for the sphere of sociology by way of offering it not only as a set of proven proof yet as a continual look for new insights. The booklet will function a great complement to introductory sociology courses.

This e-book provides an outline of the numerous studies and representations of motherhood in India from old to fashionable instances. The thrust of the arguments made by way of a few of the members is that the centrality of motherhood as an ideology in a woman’s lifestyles is synthetic. this can be verified by means of analysing quite a few institutional constructions of society – language, faith, media, legislations and expertise.

Co-authored by means of Karen A. Cerulo, the jap Sociological Society’s Robin L. Williams Lecturer for 2013-2014Do birds of a feather flock jointly or do opposites allure? Is honesty the easiest coverage? Are youngsters our Most worthy commodity? Is schooling the good equalizer? Adages like those form our social existence.

A Thrice-Told story is one ethnographer's resourceful and robust reaction to the methodological concerns raised by way of feminist and postmodernist critics of conventional ethnography. the writer, a feminist anthropologist, makes use of 3 texts constructed out of her study in Taiwan—a piece of fiction, anthropological fieldnotes, and a social technology article—to discover a few of those criticisms.